OXFORD – Zach Scruggs will get a hearing Aug. 25 on why his 2008 conviction should be tossed out.

Today, Senior U.S. District Judge Neal Biggers Jr. granted the former Oxford attorney a hearing set for 10 a.m., even to present evidence to support a motion filed with the court last fall.

In early 2008, Scruggs pleaded guilty to not reporting that he knew an illegal conversation was held between then-New Albany attorney Timothy Balducci and then-Circuit Judge Henry Lackey of Calhoun City about sending a legal-fees lawsuit to arbitration.